The High Pressures of Living Caused Their Blindness, They Were able to Find that Love of Life Back Through Music

Story of overcoming obstacles, inspiring others, translated…

The Department of Labor of Hsinbei City filmed four disabled street performers’ daily routines, trainings and performances, and made it into the documentary film, “Relay Station of Dreams”, yesterday the film was shown, so everybody can gain a better understanding of the world of handicapped street performers. The instructor of the two visually impaired musicians, Liao and Chen, the leader of the Life Jazz Group, Wu came to show them their support, hoped that his students can get better and better.

the saxophonist, Wu, photo from online…

All four of the “Relay Station of Dreams” artists all came there was the hearing impaired diabolo player, Chen, two visually impaired musicians, Liao and Chen, and singer-songwriter-pianist, Lee; the film showed how much more they had put into making their performances on the streets possible, that they are NOT looking for sympathies from the community, but respects.

Lee because of the rising pressures in his eyes from the stresses of his life, he’d slowly lost his sight, he’d lived for two years not doing anything, because his neighbor his a piano teacher for the visually impaired, he’d started learning to play the piano by copying the instructor’s movements, and found the passions for life back through music, and, had played long-term on the underground passes of the East Side, he’d gotten involved in the auditions and gotten into the finals, and recorded a mini-album, “Love on the Roads”.

a visually impaired saxophonist, photo from online…

Chen was a premature baby, whose sight was damaged, and he was developmentally slow too, and is slightly autistic, and in the rehearsals, had gotten grilled in practicing his music, his instructor, Wu was more than patient towards him, taught him to use his ears, his heart, to feel out the mistakes in his playing, and now, Chen became more and more confident.

The partner of the duo, “Sound of Li and Chen”, the singer, Li-Ting Liao, is an outgoing, independent college female student, in order to make street performances into a proper career, she’d signed up for the singing class of the Blind Love Foundation, she hoped to become a professional musician one day.

Chen, who’s a very excellent diabolo sportsman, grew up in the country sides of Pingdong, he’d been deaf since birth, and was picked on by other children when he was younger, but he’s an optimistic big boy, and, this year, he’d earned the performing certifications for the artistic diabolos. Wu said, that the handicapped individuals needed to work harder than regular people, so the world can look beyond their handicaps, and see their capabilities.

So, this, is the story of inspiration, of three individuals, of how they refused to get beaten by fate, and just, worked hard, to perfect the skills they’d acquired, and, making their own lives meaningful, and at the same time, they were able to, inspire the rest of us.